1. What important and enduring concepts are fundamental? List them. Try to limit the list to two to three big concepts for the term.
2. Why do these concepts matter? Why are they important?
3. Outside school, who cares about these topics? What is their relevance in different people's lives and in different parts or the world?
4. Select one or two of the most promising of these topics and think about real-life contexts to answer the following:
What are the interdisciplinary connections?
What other subjects might be incorporated?
5. As you begin to imagine working with these topics, how might you push past rote learning into analysis, evaluation and creation? Incorporate Blooms "rigor" verbs into your answer.
6. Imagine authentic ways students might engage in the project and the ways 21st-century skills might be addressed. Hint: The terms collaboration, digital tools and information literacy should appear in your answer!
7. \What aspects of these topics will interest your students?
8. What learning dispositions should you cultivate and ask your students to pay attention to?
2. Why do these concepts matter? Why are they important?
3. Outside school, who cares about these topics? What is their relevance in different people's lives and in different parts or the world?
4. Select one or two of the most promising of these topics and think about real-life contexts to answer the following:
5. As you begin to imagine working with these topics, how might you push past rote learning into analysis, evaluation and creation? Incorporate Blooms "rigor" verbs into your answer.
6. Imagine authentic ways students might engage in the project and the ways 21st-century skills might be addressed. Hint: The terms collaboration, digital tools and information literacy should appear in your answer!
7. \What aspects of these topics will interest your students?
8. What learning dispositions should you cultivate and ask your students to pay attention to?